Within a dozen of years, James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), Tim Goldsworthy and Jonathan Galkin have gathered together an interesting bunch of talented artists hailing from rock and electro (with the likes of The Rapture, YACHT, Holy Ghost, Shit Robot, The Juan McLean, Benoit & Sergio, Hercules & Love Affair, Hot Chip…), offering a very efficient balance of inspirations!

Then it is not a surprise that Australian multi-instrumentalist Surahn Sidhu(former bassist of The Swiss and a member of Empire of The Sun) released his first EP (eponymous title) on the label in late 2012.

Here above is the retro nostalgic video for his hit single « Watching the World » .

You can download the 5-track EP from iTunes, or wait until February 18th to get the legendary Prins Thomas‘ remixes EP.

A Thibaut may hide another one. After Thibaut Berland aka Breakbot a little while ago, Pedro Winter (cool interview in French here) has found a new rookie to his famous label Ed Banger with Thibaut Noyer aka Boston Bun.

The guy has already drawn some attention on his work with remixes for Myd (Club Cheval) or The Aikiu; but Housecall is his first EP. And the eponymous track is still, even 3 months after its release (edit : yeah, not an exclusivity and yet it’s very good!), on our minds.

You may watch the very 80s / surreal video above, or directly download as MP3 the 3-track EP via iTunes. Enjoy!

Jacques Renault x Paradis, this sounds like the ideal combo. The Brooklyn-based DJ had not released any personal material for 2 years (The Tuesday EP), focusing on gigs and remixes (and probably label management).

With respect to mysterious parisian duo formed by Simon Mény & Pierre Rousseau (Paradis, for those who don’t follow- interview via Dazed Digital), they have been know so far at the production duty, with 2 acclaimed EP (Parfait Tirage then Je m’ennuie) released on New-York nu disco guru Tim Sweeney‘s label Beats In Space.

The « Back To You EP » is is scheduled to drop on January 14 on wax / 28 in digital download, on one of Jacques labels, Let’s Play House. Be patient!

More than one year after the realease of « Nuit de rêve » (see review here for instance), their third album in 10 years, Maud Geffray and Sébastien Chenut aka Scratch Massive delivered last month their new EP, « Paris » , out of which we picked up the huge remix by Parisian outfit Darabi

« Paris » is full of featurings as on the audio side, you may recognize the voice of Icelandic act GusGus’ leader, Daniel Agust; and on the video side (see above), French actress Cécile Cassel directed by Zoé Cassavetes, who has already directed a couple of videos for the French duo.

If La Ritournelle by Sébastien Tellier used to be stuck on repeat in your audio player a couple of years ago, changes are you will behave the same with « The Fall » by mysterious Los Angeles-based outfit, Rhye.

Watch the video for this wonderful ballad above; and before the album is released early 2013, download the EP as MP3 on iTunes.
An as a bonus, the remix by legendary producer Maurice Fulton (see above). Enjoy!